Friday, August 22, 2008

Fleeing from what should have been a perfect crime, four crooks in a black Mustang race into the Pennsylvania highlands. On the backseat, a briefcase full of cash. On their tail, a tattooed madman who wants them dead.

The driver calls himself Axle. A local boy, he knows the landscape, the coal-hauling roads and steep trails that lead to the perfect hideout: the crater of an abandoned mine. But Axle fears the crater. Terrible things happened there. Things that he has spent years trying to forget. Enter Kwetis, the nightflyer, a specter from Axle’s ancestral past. Part memory, part nightmare, Kwetis has planned a heist of his own. And soon Axle, his partners in crime, and their pursuer will learn that their arrival at the mine was foretold long ago . . . and that each of them is a piece of a plan devised by the spirits of the Earth.

There's also a VEINS soundtrack composed and performed by the author, Lawrence C. Connolly. For more information, go to http://www.fantasistent.com/FORUM/viewtopic.php?t=48====================CONVENTIONS AND APPEARANCES====================Borders Books and Music in Wilmington, Delaware, on September 12th as part of the ongoing writing group and lecture & panel series presented by Fantasist Enterprises. For more information, email lectures@febooks.net.

Mr. Connolly will also be signing books at Between Books in Claymont, Delaware on Saturday, September 13th.